Traditional Chinese exercises may increase efficacy of flu vaccine
...aluations and submitted blood samples for analysis before injection with the influenza vaccine. Blood also was drawn three, six and 20 weeks following vaccination, and samples were sent to a Center for Disease Control-affiliated reference laboratory in New Jersey for blinded analysis of anti-influenza anti...Study, meta-analysis examine factors associated with death from heatstroke
... that six patients (22 percent), who lived at home before the heat wave, required care in institutions for elderly patients because of severe functional limitations, the authors write. Similarly, a dramatic alteration in functional status was recorded in most surviving patients. Heatstroke is associated w...News briefs from the journal Chest, August 2007
... polysomnography was used to assess apnea severity before and after diuretic treatment. After 3 days, researchers found significant improvement in sleep-disordered breathing and an increase in upper airway caliber. They also reported a substantial decrease in patients body weight and blood pressure. This st...Pot bellies linked to early signs of cardiovascular disease
...rdening of the arteries, and can be detected years before a person experiences chest pain or has a heart attack. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to look for early signs of atherosclerosis in the walls of the aorta. Researchers then examined the relationship between body shape and early signs of ...Study says COPD testing is not measuring up
..., such as asthma, spirometry must be measured both before and after administration of medication that dilate...good news is that we have to know a problem exists before we can fix it, and now we know, said Dr. Han. Other good news is that women and men fared virtually ...Grandparents, older adults encouraged to seek help for a sleep disorder
... Stick to rituals that help you relax each night before bed. This can include such things as a warm bath, a light snack or a few minutes of reading. Dont take your worries to bed. Bedtime is a time to relax, not to hash out the stresses of the day. If you cant fall asleep, leave your bedroom a...New treatment effective in counteracting cocaine-induced symptoms
...meters, which returned to baseline levels measured before administration of cocaine.Dexmedetomidine proved to be more effective than intravenous saline, which was used as a placebo in another group of study participants. Cocaine abuse in the U.S. is widespread, with nearly 35 million Americans reporting hav...Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's
...tatins lower excess cholesterol in the bloodstream before the cholesterol can glom onto a blood vessel and cause problems with blood flow; in the same way, LRP-IV lowers amyloid-beta and indirectly lowers levels of amyloid-beta in the brain. It was more than a decade ago that Zlokovic first identified LRP...Reanalysis of controversial meta-analysis says writing off rosiglitazone may be premature
...g. 7. Both physicians testified Monday, July 30, before a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee reviewing the data on rosiglitazone's safety. At the conclusion of hearings, the panel recommended that Avandia carry new risk warnings but stopped short of calling for the drug to be removed from the...NIH scientists target future pandemic strains of H5N1 avian influenza
...ntibodies that could target predicted H5N1 mutants before these viruses evolve naturally. This advance was m...ight provide greater efficacy against such a virus before it emerges. Our findings build on elegant studies of the influenza HA protein by structural biolog...Long heat waves boost hospital admissions
...that scorching weather must last four or more days before admissions rise significantly. Giuseppe Mastrangelo and his team from the University of Padova, Italy, examined hospital discharge records for patients aged 75 or over during five heat waves which hit the Veneto Region in Northeast Italy between 20...Geriatric health conditions have major effect on half of all seniors
...ons, they may be able to help manage the condition before it leads to disability. In the medical world, experts have debated how to categorize conditions such as the ones in this study. Some are called geriatric syndromes, while others fall outside of categories typically used by physicians. The lack o...Study reveals gaps in vaccine financing for underinsured children
...provide immunizations or other preventive benefits before a high deductible has been met, are likely to increase the magnitude of this gap and must be carefully monitored. (JAMA. 2007;298(6):638-643. Available pre-embargo to the media at www.jamamedia.org ) Editors Note: Please see the article for additi...Study suggests nonpharmaceutical interventions may be helpful in severe influenza outbreaks
...ute a suite of classic public health interventions before the pandemic swept fully through the city appeared to have an associated mitigated epidemic experience, the authors write. Our study suggests that nonpharmaceutical interventions can play a critical role in mitigating the consequences of future se...Michigan-CDC study supports value of social restrictions during influenza pandemics
... called non-pharmaceutical interventions or NPIs before the pandemic gained full force. The new study finds that cities whose NPIs were sustained and layered with multiple tactics had the best outcomes. In addition to quarantine and isolation, the NPIs examined in this study were school closures and ca...Miniature implanted devices could treat epilepsy, glaucoma
... scalp to detect the signs of an epileptic seizure before it occurs. The system will record neural signals relayed by electrodes in various points in the brain, said Pedro Irazoqui (pronounced Ear-a-THOkee), an assistant professor of biomedical engineering. "When epileptics have a seizure, a particular pa...Rutgers professor Bart Krekelberg is named 1 of 20 US Pew Scholars for 2007
...ck and forth. You know your eye is going to move before you move it, and the brain tells you, Its just your eye moving; its nothing to worry about; ignore it, explains Krekelberg. Its what allows us to see fixed objects as stationary and to determine the correct motion of moving objects. Any break in th...WPI wins $1M to develop system to locate and monitor emergency workers in buildings
...The announcement of the award came just a few days before WPI hosted its second annual workshop on Precision Indoor Personnel Location and Tracking for Emergency Responders. The two-day workshop, held on Aug. 6-7, 2007, is the only national forum for researchers, corporate R&D leaders, national policy maker...Electrical implant steadies balance disorder in animals
...ng reflex. Researchers say many hurdles remain before a human device will be available. Efforts are underway to reduce electrical interference to other nerve branches and to refine the timing patterns of electrical stimulation to make them more like normal. In addition, they plan to work on making the...Novel candidate biomarker for heart failure also strongly predicts risk of death
...ing natriuretic peptide tests, we have miles to go before we can reduce the considerable risk that accompanies that diagnosis, says James Januzzi Jr., MD, of the MGH Cardiology Division, who led the study. Its highly likely that examining a patients pattern of several complementary biomarkers will be super...